Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as workers. What if school were also about cultivating students to be caring, community-involved citizens and critical, creative thinkers who love to read?
In Caring Hearts & Critical Minds, teacher-author Steven Wolk shows teachers how to help students become better readers as well as better people. "I want my students] to be thinkers and have rich conversations regarding critical issues in the text and be able to formulate opinions...
Imagine if going to school meant more than preparing kids for a test, teaching a canned curriculum, and training students for their future as worke...